California currently has a Feed in Tariff that does not allow home owners to participate in the State mandated goal of 33% renewable energy by 2020. California also does not allow the homeowner to oversize their R.E systems, as of now, your local utility has allowed only 80% homeowner generation from your R.E system. California has 2 different Energy policies Net-metering and a Feed in Tariff. Net metering the energy policy for homeowners, allow you to bank excess electricity from R.E systems for future credits. The credits you accumulate are at the retail rate, and are reviewed at the end of the year. It will be written off with a thank you from the utility and no payment to the homeowner for producing more than what you use. Net metering has allowed third party leasing companies to replace one utility with another. A California Residential Feed in Tariff would allow homeowners to sell their R.E back to the utility, protecting our communities from grid failures, natural disasters, toxic natural gas and oil Fracking. It would also create a new revenue stream for the Hard Working Taxpaying, Voting, Homeowner. Examples of Net-metering slow down Renewable Energies: 1. Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs) which create de facto caps on the deployment of renewable energies (the Germans do not have any RPSs, their Feed in Tariff has no caps. 2. Net-metering caps, most states only allow a small percentage of one to two percent of peak load to be net metered. 3. Third party leasing companies like Solar City, Sun Run, Verango and others fight tooth and nail to protect scarce capacity carve outs (from the States RPSs) so as to bolster their chosen business model. No one is fighting for the Hard Working, Taxpaying, Voting, Homeowner, we can change that with a Ca. Residential Feed in Tariff Energy policy that allows everyone to participate. Homeowner’s, Small and Large Businesses, Small and Large farmers, and Industries, have the right to sell Renewable Energy electricity back to the utility. With California emitting over 1,300,000 toxic tons a day, that is over 450 million toxic tons a year, creating a high pressure ridge over the State, like a boiling hot water pot. It is no wonder the jet stream which originates off the Arctic, has a hard time penetrating the constant emissions. And with the Arctic 80% gone and going, what year will it be Ice and Snow free ?, 2016 ? 2020 ? 2025 ? At the start of 2000, most scientists said the Arctic will last until the end of the century, that has changed, now some are thinking 2016 ? 2025 ? When do you think it will be gone, and what will cool the Northern Hemisphere when it is gone ? We need sustainable and successful energy solutions now and a Residential and Commercial Feed in Tariff is sustainable and will help ensure our survival. Vote Solar Initiative is a Sierra Club and Solar Leasing Companies platform to ensure that One Utility will take the place of Another through the continued use of Net Metering. We need a Policy that will enable Hard Working, Voting, Tax Paying Citizens, get a chance to participate in the States goal of 33% Renewable Energy by 2020 through a California Residential Feed in Tariff. California, there is enough Residential Solar to power 2.25 San Onofres, couple that with a Commercial Feed in Tariff and we can solve some of these environmental and electrical generating problems. The Southwest is in the midst of a record drought, some 14 years in the making, which means the water supply for many Western states - California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada - is drying up. Last month the Bureau of Reclamation announced theyre cutting the flow of water into Lake Mead, which has already lost 100 feet of water since the drought began. What happens if the Southwest drought does not end soon? Will we keep using 3 to 6 million gallons of Clean Water per Fracked well, to extract natural gas? This petition will ask the California Regulators and Law makers to allocate Renewable Portfolio Standards to Ca. Home Owners for a Residential Feed in Tariff, the RPS is the allocation method that is used to set aside a certain percentage of electrical generation for Renewable Energy in the the State. The State of California has mandated that 33% of its Energy come from Renewable Energy by 2020. California uses toxic natural gas to generate electricity, 45.3%, that is a lot of Fracked Wells poisoning our ground water, 3 to 6 million gallons of water are used per well. If Fracking is safe why did Vice Pres Cheney lobby and win Executive, Congressional, and Judicial exemptions from: Clean Water Act. Safe Drinking Water. Act Clean Air Act. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Emergency Planning Community Right to Know Act. National Environmental Policy Act. Sign And Share this petition for a California Residential Feed in Tariff. signon.org/sign/let-california-home-owners
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:58:21 +0000
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